In an article “Boomerang Children” by Dr. Bruce Narramore and Dr. Vern Lewis, it states that adult children choose to live or return home because where else would they get free rent, home cooking, cable TV and free laundry? They would be fools to live anywhere else.

Top 10 Signs that you have a” boomerang” child:

1. A week after your graduate son comes home for the holidays a moving truck pulls up to with all his furniture. You look at your son and he responds “It’s only for a year or two until I get my feet on the ground.”
2. You seem to be handing out weekly allowances all over again!
3. You see your exercise room slowly being turned into a dump site full of running shoes, dirty laundry and fast food droppings.
4. Your fridge turned from a healthy food environment to cold pizza and beer storage facility.
5. When your daughter brings home a date, instead of feeling suspicious you feel hopeful.
6. The lingerie in the laundry isn’t yours.
7. The house phone rings all the time and it’s never for you.
8. You stop lying about your age and start lying about theirs.
9. You stop saving towards your children’s marriages and excessively research vacation properties online.
10. You find yourself smoking again!

Let your boomerang children take responsibility and share in all expectations. Don’t be afraid to ask for help!